US6470549B1 - Procedure for the construction, making and remaking of extended road vehicles - Google Patents

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US6470549B1
US6470549B1 US08/765,489 US76548997A US6470549B1 US 6470549 B1 US6470549 B1 US 6470549B1 US 76548997 A US76548997 A US 76548997A US 6470549 B1 US6470549 B1 US 6470549B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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    • B62D65/00—Designing, manufacturing, e.g. assembling, facilitating disassembly, or structurally modifying motor vehicles or trailers, not otherwise provided for
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    • B62—LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS
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    • B62D47/00—Motor vehicles or trailers predominantly for carrying passengers
    • B62D47/003—Motor vehicles or trailers predominantly for carrying passengers convertible in order to modify the number of seats
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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  • the invention relates to a procedure for the construction, making and remaking of extended road vehicles in order to increase the width of road vehicles, particularly standard-make road vehicles.
  • the procedure in accordance with the invention is based on an asymmetrical extension whereby all vital parts of the driver's surroundings (the steering, control and the driver's position assemblies) are kept in their basic, unchanged arrangement, there being no need to change or remake them. In this way the construction, making and remaking are facilitated, and an enlargement of the useful space is achieved.
  • the invention belongs generally to the IPC class B 60 or B 60 R 27/00.
  • the technical problem which is successfully solved by the present invention consists in a procedure for making and remaking an extended road vehicle on the basis of a standard-make vehicle with a transversely mounted and transmission gear in front and with a front drive or four-wheel drive for, preferably but not exclusively, the construction, making and remaking in the sense of extension e.g. of a combined vehicle of extended (still permissible and useful) width, in a simple way, all by keeping, as far as possible, the original geometry of the vehicle, and by adding as few remade parts and assemblies, e.g. the engine, the transmission and control gears, the driver's position and other vital parts of the vehicles, as possible.
  • the technical problem, which has so far not been solved in a satisfactory way, is to determine such a procedure which would provide a cost-effective series production of vehicles thus made and remade.
  • the standard way or remaking road vehicles with the aim to obtain as much useful space as possible, or of remaking with the aim to change the basic purpose of the road vehicle itself, is based on an increase of the useful space by superstructures.
  • a superstructure includes only those parts of the vehicle which are designed for the transport of freight or passengers. For example, out of a normal truck of smaller width a vehicle with greater useful width is obtained by adding a structure in the form of extended space behind the driver's seat. An extension structure of simple remake is placed onto the basic, non-extended underframe, while a more complex remake is placed onto an underframe which is extended for the purpose.
  • the procedure for the construction, making and remaking of extended road vehicles in accordance with the invention consists in keeping the vital vehicle assemblies (both driving and control) as well as the driver's working surroundings as they were originally dimensioned and installed, while carrying out an extension through symmetrical or asymmetrical (or a combination of both) addition of an inset longitudinally into the vehicle.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic view illustrating an underframe portion with the control and driving parts of a typical road vehicle before the remake;
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic view illustrating an underframe portion with the control and driving parts of a typical road vehicle after the remake using the procedure in accordance with the invention for the extension of the vehicle according to embodiment I, and with the possibility of left- or right-hand steering-wheel installation;
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic view illustrating an underframe portion with the control and driving parts of a typical road vehicle after the remake using the procedure in accordance with the invention for the extension of the vehicle according to embodiment II, and with the possibility of left- or right-hand steering-wheel installation.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a portion of an underframe with the control and driving mechanism of a typical road vehicle before the remake.
  • the underframe on the drawing only serves as a basis for the explanation of the procedure in accordance with the invention, while the procedure itself is not limited to the illustrated vehicle type only.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates the installation and position of the transversely mounted driving assembly which is clamped at the upper side between two longitudinal carriers A and B linked with the lower carrier of the engine and the front wheels suspensions. Both the A and B carrier extend into the rear part of the vehicle.
  • the front portion of the vehicle as illustrated in FIG. 1 is extended in such a way that the outlook of the front portion of the vehicle as illustrated in FIGS. 2 and 3 is achieved.
  • the steering wheel can be in the left L or right R position.
  • the vehicle is extended behind the place where the driving assembly 1 is clamped into the carrier B, so that the clamping of the transversely mounted driving assembly into the carrier B remains unchanged.
  • Such symmetrical extension of the front portion makes it possible to keep unchanged, besides the driving assembly 1 and its clamping into the carrier B, also the control part 2 , the left-hand driver's door with the mirror, the complete left-hand half of the lighting installation (headlight, indicator light, sidelight), the left wheel with the wheel basket and wing, the accelerator, brake and clutch pedals, the measuring instruments and controls, as well as the complete driver's position with the seat.
  • Asymmetrical extension is continued until the rearward area beyond the driving-control portion of the vehicle is reached.
  • FIG. 3 illustrate an underframe portion with the control and driving parts of a typical road vehicle after the remake using a procedure in accordance with the invention for the extension of a vehicle according to embodiment II.
  • An additional carrier A′ is then inserted in the area of asymmetrical extension having the same characteristics and form as the standard carrier, and being identical with the carrier A. All other characteristics of the remake remain the same as in embodiment I.
  • such symmetrical extensions require not only a simple insertion of the missing outer sheet and an extension of the inner parts of the centre console, but also an extension of some of the vital and carrying parts, such as the steering column—which does not present a major problem, one floating axle—which is carried out in the claimed procedure by introducing an additional part of the floating axle, which is movable and rotatable and additionally fixed to the underframe.
  • the procedure for the construction, making and remaking of extended road vehicles in accordance with the invention provides, through a combination of asymmetrical and symmetrical extension of a road vehicle, and efficient and technically acceptable solution which can also be applied with success in series production and remake of road vehicles. In this way, it is possible to manufacture new types of extended vehicles. In economically acceptable small series by using vehicle parts made in large series, which is economically much more acceptable than to design and manufacture extended vehicle types according to known procedures.

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